Actos de Amor Book

This is one of the first romance books I've read. The kind you randomly picked up from the bookshelf in your house, start to read out of boredom and unexpectedly loved.

I can still remember I started reading this on a New Year's eve while waiting for my sister to come home so we can start preparing for the New Year's celebration. This book has a nostalgic feel to it and every time I look back to that December of 2008, I can remember feeling the warmth brought by the extraordinary love presented in this book.

I loved the unusuality of the story of romance, how Luke fell in love with Jessica through her letters to Constance - Luke's grandmother - that he has read when Constance died. He found the box full of Jessica's letters when he was looking through her grandmother's stuff and one by one, he read them and developed a special connection to her as he got to know her through her letters.

Jessica was a famous theater actress and after a train accident, everybody believed her to be dead. Through the letters, Luke found out that she isn't and out of the growing affection he has developed for Jessica, he started looking for her. Luke went to Sydney.

When he found her, he introduced himself and Jessica tried to shut him out because she was trying to build a new simple life for herself far away from her past. Luke couldn't understand himself but he wanted to stay and so he did. He continued to love her despite all her insecurities of the physical flaws she has acquired from the accident.

This was a very powerful and extraordinary story of love. I will definitely give it 5 stars basing from the time I finished reading it, and I'm pretty sure I'd still give it the same rating if I read it again.